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peterquantrill.bsky.social
Writing and talking about music. Cricket tragic.
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Hey, it's me, on Monday I become a normal person again but tomorrow I get to sing Brünnhilde one last time. If you're free tomorrow, and within reach of London, please come. This Ring has been magic and you won't regret it. All of 20 odd tickets left. @regentsopera.bsky.social

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Bleeping fabulous: an electroacoustic day of musical continents and galaxies at the Barbican ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-symph...

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Anarchy and utopia: Calixto Bieito talks to Richard Bratby about directing Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina bachtrack.com/interview-ca...

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Pearls of great price polished by Rattle and the @londonsymphony.bsky.social ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-rattl...

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Boulez, Benjamin and Brahms: unlikely but absorbing companions in last night's first-rate LSO concert. I wrote about it for Bachtrack. bachtrack.com/review-rattl...

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Family affairs: Catharine Woodward on singing Brünnhilde in Regents Opera’s Ring ✍️ @peterquantrill.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-ca...

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The Tempest at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Design: amazing. Sound and music: gruesome. Sigourney Weaver: a duke, a duchess, a master? No one seems to be sure.

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Darts on the radio this afternoon: in a chat about 9-dart finishes, @talkdants.bsky.social referred to 52:48 as 'the infernal ratio'. Could catch on.

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Snow White meets Parsifal - my ★★★★ Bachtrack review of Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera. Happy Christmas all! bachtrack.com/review-hanse...

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Done to a turn: something for everyone in the @rbo-org.bsky.social's Hansel and Gretel 🍭🍪🍩 ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-hanse...

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Well, it’s lunchtime, and it’s the season when serious people with public profiles write reviews of the year. Politics; analysis – you know the kind of thing. But after *this* year? Fuck that. Instead, here’s one written by an idiot

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(not mine, but whoever made it has pierced my soul)

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Glorious thread featuring 'actual book editor'.

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I was utterly delighted to learn, in the very early morning BBC news, that scientists had been 'confounded' by the movements of a whale. We are confounded every day, we just forget to remember that we are. Non confundar in aeternum. X

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The Planets on record - my guide for Hi-Fi News readers (fans of Karajan, look away now!). www.hifinews.com/content/gust...

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In this month's Gramophone, @peterquantrill.bsky.social and I round off the coverage of the Bruckner bicentenary with a discussion of Furtwängler's only recording of Bruckner 9, made in 1944 and originally reviewed for the magazine by the great Deryck Cooke.

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*stares hard at Brexit*

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Amazing how language works. 'Syrian rebels' just looks so much more hurrah and heroic to Western eyes than 'Jihadist armies', eh?

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